History Quiz #755
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Q1. In 891 Minamoto no Yoshiari, a Japanese court official and founder of the Takeda school of archery, was given the task of compiling a National what?
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Q2. When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
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Q3. The Constitution of Cádiz, the first Constitution of Spain, was ratified in 1812 under whose authority?
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Q4. Where was the 1932 armed uprising, or Khuvsgul Uprising?
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Q5. In a general election in 1990, the National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 80% of the seats in Parliament, but did not get into power. Which country was this?
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Q6. The 1925 serum runs to Nome by dog sled across Alaska (the "Great Race of Mercy"), were to combat an epidemic of what?
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Q7. In 1835, why did Richard Lawrence, an unemployed housepainter from England, fail in the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the US, Andrew Jackson?
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